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Cake . A cake and a bad custom are fated to be broken. - Gâteau et mauvaise coutume se doivent rompre {French. Proverb.}
Cake . Have I not earn'd my cake in baking of it? {Tennyson.}
Cake . If you can't get a loaf, don't throw away a cake. {Proverb.}
Cake . The nurse's bread is sweeter than the mother's cake. {Frisian. Proverb.}
Cake . Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? {George Herbert.}
Cakes . No one can bake cakes for the whole world. {Serv. Proverb.}
Calamity . Calamity is man's true touchstone {Beaumont and Fletcher.}
Calamity . How weak are the hearts of mortals under calamity! - Ut sunt molles in calamitate mortalium animi! {Tacitus.}
Calamity . Human courage should rise to the height of human calamity. {Gen. Lee.}
Calamity . It is a common calamity; we have all been mad once. - Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes {Mantuanus.}
 
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androus : A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev.James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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